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Map of Italy and its major cities. The following is a list of Italian municipalities with a population over 50,000.The table below contains the cities populations as of 31 December 2021, [1] as estimated by the Italian National Institute of Statistics, [2] and the cities census population from the 2011 Italian Census. [3]
The Italian city-states were numerous political and independent territorial entities that existed in the Italian Peninsula from antiquity to the formation of the Kingdom of Italy in the late 19th century. The ancient Italian city-states were Etruscan (Dodecapolis), Latin, most famously Rome, and Greek (Magna Graecia), but also of Umbrian ...
As of 2024, Italy has 60 listed sites, making it the state party with the most World Heritage Sites, just above China (59). [3][4] The first site in Italy, the Rock Drawings in Valcamonica, was listed at the 3rd Session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Cairo and Luxor, Egypt, in 1979. [5]
The geography of Italy includes the description of all the physical geographical elements of Italy. Italy, whose territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region , [ 1 ] is located in southern Europe and comprises the long, boot-shaped Italian Peninsula crossed by the Apennines , the southern side of Alps , the large plain of ...
0362 – Province of Monza – area of Seregno. 0363 – Provinces of Bergamo and Cremona. 0364 – Province of Brescia – areas of Valle Camonica and Breno. 0365 – Province of Brescia – Lake Garda and Valle Sabbia, area of Salò) 0371 – City and Province of Lodi and a few towns in the Metropolitan City of Milan.
The region of Emilia-Romagna consists of nine provinces and covers an area of 22,446 km 2 (8,666 sq mi), ranking sixth in Italy. Nearly half of the region (48%) consists of plains while 27% is hilly and 25% mountainous. The region's section of the Apennines is marked by areas of flysch, badland erosion (calanques) and caves.
It is the tenth-largest country in Europe by area, covering 301,340 km 2 (116,350 sq mi), [ 3 ] and third-most populous member state of the European Union, with a population of nearly 60 million. [ 16 ] Its capital and largest city is Rome; other major urban areas include Milan, Naples, Turin, Florence, and Venice.
Due to immigration from around the world, there has been an increase in non-Christian religions. As of 2009, there were 1.0 million Muslims in Italy [116] forming 1.6 percent of population; independent estimates put the Islamic population in Italy anywhere from 0.8 million [117] to 1.5 million. [118] 50,000 Italian Muslims hold Italian citizenship.